It has been decided that only women will operate 26 polling stations in the suburbs, as a symbolic gesture towards empowering more women. The district Collector's Office, whose initiative this is, has said that right from the presiding officer to the peon, only women will handle the stations.

The Collector's office came up with this idea on the lines of female employees managing railway stations, and will take up various initiatives around it. There will be around five female government employees at every station called Sakhi polling station.